* Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question
@ 2011-11-22 3:39 99% ` Joseph Davis
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From: Joseph Davis @ 2011-11-22 3:39 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
I'd use sed and the regex "-[0-9]" to delimit the field
foo=`echo '123--bad-2xyz-3--' | sed -r -e "s/-[0-9].*//"`
echo $foo
123--bad
Helpful?
Adam Carter wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need to cut a string, which happens to be a filename, using the
> first dash that's followed by a numeral, so cut -f 1 -d"-" fails if
> the filename has an extra dash. How do i do this?
>
>
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